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It's not racism. Check.

It's not misogyny. Check.

It's not bigotry. Check.

We get it. There are disenfranchised folks in the US that feel under-represented and even targeted/blamed etc.

But this, this nonsense, is beyond the pale. You got your president elect. Worst case, thousands will pay the price in rights, access to services or the ability to live in a democratic society, free from the challenges (life threatening or otherwise) that they sought splice from.

It's a small business. Parents, customers with children, sullied by this insane, malicious group of alt right sociopaths who make up The_Donald and other locations. To justify or support this shit obliterates any legitimate credibility, however remote, they may have had.

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Ah yes, the "legitimate credibility" of 4chan. I'm sure they're horrified by it finally being obliterated by this, and not every other op over the last 10 years.

> Worst case, thousands will pay the price in rights, access to services or the ability to live in a democratic society, free from the challenges (life threatening or otherwise) that they sought splice from.

I'm not sure what your point is?

Typo in there, my point is that this President-Elect has indicated, and begun by appointment, the process of removing rights (hard won in many cases) from individuals.

This is what the voting populace wanted so clearly there is a desire on the part of many of the Republicans, Trump supporters and protest voters for this to happen.

To further allow this type of witch-hunt bullshit continue is throwing salt on a wound that will not in any way help with those impacted by this election and it's fallout.

People on the "left" will see this type of activity and continue to paint the "right" with the same generalizations that the right is adamant is not their true fight/cause etc.

The "right" should be denouncing this immediately and disavowing these types of actions if there is any hope of bridging the divide.

Unless, of course, there is no interest in doing that at all.

> The "right" should be denouncing this immediately and disavowing these types of actions if there is any hope of bridging the divide.

The biggest divide in America is between the capitalist class and the working class. It can only be bridged by a reverse wealth transfer that's been accumulating since the anti-trust laws were weakened and unions gelded.

> The "right" should be denouncing this immediately and disavowing these types of actions if there is any hope of bridging the divide.

I mean, the right calls for denouncing the post-election riots, the left calls for denouncing this BS. Both point at the other and say "this is why we can't cooperate!" after neither happens.

So goes partisan politics.

Also: it's called "alt right" because it's politically radioactive and the GOP wants nothing to do with it.

I think it's safe to say these kinds of trolls do not represent, in any way, the majority of republican voters.

Why? 71% of Republicans doubted Obama's birthplace.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-ele...

The sample size of this poll is inadequate, and it's online w/preselected sample.

Then we can look to the republican voters to denounce their actions.

That is, after all, the standard that we hold Muslims to. As well as the standard we hold progressives to when anarchists try to turn peaceful protests into riots.

The party of personal responsibility is often quick to hold groups accountable for the actions of individuals.

I will denounce anyone who claims this is definitely true, there is 10000% nothing definitive here, but you can't really fault people for investigating after the number of secret child sex abuse scandals that have happened in the past two or three decades.

> you can't really fault people for investigating after the number of secret child sex abuse scandals that have happened in the past two or three decades.

Are these people really investigating though? What they are doing is posting threats, lies and rumours on social media sites under the guise of "we just don't want children to be raped." Nobody that posts:

> I won't stop tweeting about #PizzaGate until I know for a fact that there aren't children in danger being covered up by the US government

is "investigating" anything unless you count "making Twitter posts that contain the #PizzaGate hashtag" as an investigation.

You're also missing that many of these people are starting with the conclusion that child molestation is going on, and they are just looking for evidence of what they "know" is happening. That's not an investigation. That's a witch hunt.

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